Only armchair revolutionaries call this peace

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Maybe Julian Assange does deserve a prize. But not the one he’s been nominated for

I don’t know much about Scandinavian humour, but I’ve always admired the joke
that is the “open sandwich”. That one takes chutzpah. It’s like an outdoor
house. An underwater hairdryer. You can imagine Björn and Benny sniggering
over it, and saying: “The wörld will never fall för this!” But we did, even
though it’s one of the worst ideas anybody ever had. Fair play to them. Hell
of a job.

I mention this because WikiLeaks has just been nominated for a Nobel Peace
Prize. Also a joke? The Norwegians trying to wind up the Swedes? Both of
them wondering why